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Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

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Could the ancient Greeks have invented quantum theory?

There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years earlier?

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What exactly would a full-scale quantum computer be useful for?

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What exactly would a full-scale quantum computer be useful for?

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Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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Carlo Rovelli on what we get wrong about the origins of quantum theory

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A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

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A timeline of the most important events in quantum mechanics

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What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

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What does quantum theory really tell us about the nature of reality?

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US military launches initiative to find the best quantum computer

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Where Schrödinger’s cat came from – and why it’s getting fatter

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model of a suspension of a quantum chip of a Quantum System Two

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Why quantum computers may continue to fail a key test

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Qubit, abstract illustration.

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Space could emerge from time

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Quantum computers could protect our data from quantum computers

A powerful enough quantum computer could crack the encryption methods currently used to protect data around the world, but the solution might be a quantum algorithm once thought to be completely useless

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'Quantum Darwinism' may explain why we live in a shared reality

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The epic quest to redefine the second using the world's best clocks

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How nothing could destroy the universe

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Quantum eavesdropping could work even from inside a black hole

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